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The String-Puller’s appearance!!

■At the meeting to think about Europe’s economy…■

“String puller Germany”

There is lately a rumour going around in European newspaper and internet
“As Greece joined the EU, Germany clearly predicted the current situation!”
And based on that the theory: Well, was it Germany’s doing after all?

I also feel like the moment the string-puller kept receiving Greek cannons, they were disqualified as the string-puller.

Translation: lost_hitsu, maya5392, spaghettifelice
LJ | Original

The EU and Turkey

Because now that the mutual economy has become severe in the Greece crisis,
Turkey and Greece said, “Let’s reduce war funds by Isse no se!”*
They mutually loosened up their attitude of being wary of each other a bit.

[T/N: *Isse no se (いっせーのせ), also known as Yubisuma (指スマ), is a number-guessing hand game played by more than one person. Played at the speed of rock-paper-scissors, one player has to guess the total number of thumbs held up by the other players and themselves. After their guess, right or wrong, another player gets to guess, and so on. If a player guesses correctly, they win and they put one of their hands behind their back. If they win the second time, they’re out. Last one with at least one hand is the loser. (the purpose can be used similarly to pulling straws)]

From the very start Turkey has made an appeal that they want to join the EU, but they still haven’t let him in.

Even after they turned into a minus after the Lehman shock, they worked hard in 2010 and 2011 including the very good economic growth rate (Although there still are a lot of trade deficits…). He is starting to become so close with EU members that they are freely trading with each other, so Turkey is becoming quite noticed.

But it is sad that even though they had requested to join since the 1970s, other countries that requested to join later have joined faster than them. Even in tourist resorts, Turkish guides will squeeze this story in suddenly while they’re talking.
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Halloween!

Belarus
Young children seem to have started enjoying Halloween lately, but they don’t to go around to different houses requesting candy.

Latvia
They’ve had the custom of dressing up in animal and mythological costumes for centuries in order to drive away evil spirits. They go around to lots of houses, dancing. It sounds kind of fun.

Lithuania
November 1st is a day to celebrate saints and ancestors. It seems that this holiday provided a one-month break for everyone way back when, but it’s been shortened to just November first. In recent years, it seems like many young people have started celebrating it like American Halloween.

Estonia
There are lots of real ghosts there so there was an article in Time about how they don’t feel the need to celebrate Halloween. Winters in Tallinn must be scary…

List of Holidays by Country ←Useful

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Translation: hikari_kaitou
LJ | Original

The British Commonwealth’s Rallying Style in Africa Was Pretty Amazing!

I love Italy when he’s like this! About the second panel, this anti-tank barrier was made by welding H-beams together,so trying to pound at it with a hammer wouldn’t actually do anything.

L3-chan- A petite, cute tank.



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